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Virtual Holocaust Survivor Talk: Erika Schwartz
Virtual Holocaust Survivor Talk: Erika Schwartz
5:00pm - 6:30pm
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Aug 31, 2025 at 5:00pm Ends Aug 31, 2025 at 6:30pm Virtual Holocaust survivor testimony followed by Q&A Click for more info |
Echoes & Reflections | Swastikas and Nazi Salutes: Teaching Symbols of Hate
Echoes & Reflections | Swastikas and Nazi Salutes: Teaching Symbols of Hate
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 4, 2025 at 3:00pm Ends Sep 4, 2025 at 4:00pm Symbols are an important vehicle to convey ideas. The Nazis took full advantage of the power of images, adopting and manipulating symbols such as the swastika to excite and incite a nation. Click for more info |
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OCTOBER 7, Its Aftermath, and the Resulting Rise of Antisemitism: A Personal Perspective from an FBI Agent on the Ground
OCTOBER 7, Its Aftermath, and the Resulting Rise of Antisemitism: A Personal Perspective from an FBI Agent on the Ground
1:00pm - 2:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 8, 2025 at 1:00pm Ends Sep 8, 2025 at 2:00pm Since the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, communities worldwide have seen a rise in extremist radicalization and experienced a surge in antisemitic rhetoric and violence. Click for more info |
Echoes & Reflections | My Friend Abe, A 90-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor
Echoes & Reflections | My Friend Abe, A 90-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 9, 2025 at 3:00pm Ends Sep 9, 2025 at 4:00pm Abe Piasek was 13 years old in 1942 when he was taken from his family in Poland – he never saw his parents or his little sister again. He spent the next three years forced to work in slave labor camps. Click for more info
DHHRM | Funk Family Upstander Speaker Series - The Power of Hope: Jeanne Celestine Lakin
DHHRM | Funk Family Upstander Speaker Series - The Power of Hope: Jeanne Celestine Lakin
6:00pm - 8:00pm
(2h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 9, 2025 at 6:00pm Ends Sep 9, 2025 at 8:00pm At just nine, Jeanne Celestine Lakin was thrust into the horrors of the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsis, fleeing violent militias with her siblings and forced to survive in the wilderness. Despite the brutality and the tragic loss of her family, she discovered a wellspring of inner strength that led her to a path of resilience, education, and advocacy. Click for more info |
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HRA | September Virtual Coffee Encounter - Miracle Child: Surviving the Holocaust from Birth
HRA | September Virtual Coffee Encounter - Miracle Child: Surviving the Holocaust from Birth
12:00pm - 1:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 17, 2025 at 12:00pm Ends Sep 17, 2025 at 1:00pm Mira Knei-Paz is a 71-year-old Holocaust "baby survivor" born secretly in a pig shed in Austria after her mother escaped a deportation train. Her father was murdered at Auschwitz while she and her mother survived the war that killed 88% of Hungarian Jewry in four months. Click for more info
USHMM | 2025 First Person Series: Robert Teitel
USHMM | 2025 First Person Series: Robert Teitel
12:00pm - 1:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 17, 2025 at 12:00pm Ends Sep 17, 2025 at 1:00pm Born into a Jewish family in German-occupied Amsterdam, Robert Teitel never got to know his parents. He never learned to play chess from his father, a master player. He never saw an exhibition of his mother’s photography. Before Robert turned one, the Nazis arrested Robert’s father as mass deportations of Jews from the Netherlands began. Robert’s mother placed him with a caretaker, where he could be “hidden in plain sight,” while she went into hiding herself. Click for more info |
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HMMSA | Survivor Speakers Series: The Story of Susanne Jalnos
HMMSA | Survivor Speakers Series: The Story of Susanne Jalnos
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 21, 2025 at 2:00pm Ends Sep 21, 2025 at 3:00pm Susanne Jalnos was born in Rajka, Hungary that is a small town near the border of what was then Czechoslovakia. Her family consisted of her parents and a brother and sister. Anna’s father owned two butcher shops—one kosher and one non-kosher. On March 10, 1944, the Nazis marched into Hungary and changed her life forever. Click for more info |
MJH | “The Last Million” Book Talk
MJH | “The Last Million” Book Talk
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 25, 2025 at 6:00pm Ends Sep 25, 2025 at 7:00pm From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII. In May 1945, after German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, millions of concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and Nazi collaborators were left behind in Germany, a nation in ruins. Click for more info |
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Echoes & Reflections | "Did the Holocaust Take Place in Denmark?"
Echoes & Reflections | "Did the Holocaust Take Place in Denmark?"
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 29, 2025 at 2:00pm Ends Sep 29, 2025 at 3:00pm Between October 1 and October 2, 1943, during the Jewish holiday of Rosh HaShanah (the Jewish New Year) German Nazi forces made an attempt to capture the more than 7,000 Jews of Denmark in order to deport them to their deaths like millions of Jews before. Click for more info
“MJH | Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend” Book Talk
“MJH | Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend” Book Talk
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 29, 2025 at 6:00pm Ends Sep 29, 2025 at 7:00pm Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend is the ultimate immigrant story and an epic David-and-Goliath adventure. While American teens were socializing in ice cream parlors, Siggi B. Wilzig was suffering beatings by Nazi hoodlums for being a Jew and was soon deported along with his family to the darkest place the world has ever known: Auschwitz. Click for more info |
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